Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations by A. Bery (English) Hardcover

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Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies.

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Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies. Collected essays include: cross-cultural comparisons from areas as diverse as Africa, Ireland and Latin America; analysis of specific texts as sites of border conflict; and revisions of post-colonial theoretical frameworks. A timely questioning of the categories of a critical field at the point when it is becoming increasingly comparative, this volume seeks to suggest more dynamic ways of working in post-colonial cultural studies.

Author Biography

NARA ARAUJO Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Havana, currently Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonama Metropolitana, Mexico CityAIDAN ARROWSMITH Lecturer in Literary Studies, Staffordshire UniversityCATHERINE DAVIES Professor of Spanish, University of ManchesterSUSAN FORSYTH Ph.D. student, Christ Church College, CanterburySAM HAIGH Lecturer in French Studies, University of WarwickWILSON HARRIS Distinguished writer and essayistLIAM HARTE Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, St Mary's University College, LondonC.L. INNES Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of KentWILLY MALEY Reader in English Literature, University of GlasgowDAVID MARRIOTT Lecturer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of LondonLANCE PETTITT Lecturer, St Mary's University College, LondonDAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer in English and Deputy Director of the African Studies Unit, University of LeedsKEITH RICHARDS Lecturer in Spanish, University of LeedsSUJALA SINGH Lecturer in English, University of SouthamptonGERRY SMYTH Lecturer in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores UniversityGERALDINE STONEHAM Senior Lecturer, South Bank UniversityJOHN THIEME Professor and Head of English Studies, South Bank UniversityDENISE VERNON Teacher of Drama and Cultural Studies, University of Salford

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Bery & P.Murray PART I: ON THE BORDER Postcolonial Studies in Ireland; C.L.Innes Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness; W.Maley The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border; G.Smyth PART II: DIASPORAS Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England; A.Arrowsmith States of Dislocation: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist ; L.Harte & L.Pettitt It's a Free Country: Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis; G.Stoneham I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US; N.Araújo PART III: INTERNALIZED EXILES Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis; D.Marriott Nationalism's Brandings: Women's Bodies and Narratives of the Partition; S.Singh Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers; K.Richards Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post) Coloniality and Collaborative (Auto) Biography; S.Forsyth 'The Limits of Goodwill': The Value and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally's 'Aboriginal' Novels; D.Vernon PART IV: VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY The Trickster at the Border: Cross-cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean; P.Murray Between Speech and Writing: 'La Nouvelle Littérature Antillaise'?; S.Haigh Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldana; C.Davies Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain ; J.Thieme 'Canvas of Blood': Okigbo's African Modernism; D.Richards Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies; W.Harris

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'...a timely and important collection of essays which challenges the intellectual and disciplinary borders of postcolonialism while attending to a variety of literatures often neglected in studies of postcolonial culture...As well as constituting a busy and intelligent contribution to the field, Comparing Postcolonial Literatures shows the way forward for postcolonial studies by pushing against its disciplinary borders in a healthy spirit of self-critique and innovation.' - John McLeod, University of Leeds

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'...a timely and important collection of essays which challenges the intellectual and disciplinary borders of postcolonialism while attending to a variety of literatures often neglected in studies of postcolonial culture...As well as constituting a busy and intelligent contribution to the field, Comparing Postcolonial Literatures shows the way forward for postcolonial studies by pushing against its disciplinary borders in a healthy spirit of self-critique and innovation.' - John McLeod, University of Leeds

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Bringing together a range of critics working in the Hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone postcolonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed postcolonial studies. The book aims in particular to reconsider the role of the British Isles in this field and to bridge the gap between postcolonial literatures in English and those written in other languages.

Details ISBN0312227817 Language English ISBN-10 0312227817 ISBN-13 9780312227814 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 809 Year 2000 Short Title COMPARING POSTCOLONIAL LITERAT Pages 283 Edition 2000th Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Dislocations Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Edited by A. Bery DOI 10.1604/9780312227814 UK Release Date 2000-06-15 AU Release Date 2000-06-15 NZ Release Date 2000-06-15 US Release Date 2000-06-15 Illustrations XI, 283 p. Author P. Murray Publisher Palgrave USA Edition Description 2000 ed. Publication Date 2000-06-15 Alternative 9780333723395 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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